The answer, my fellow Americans, is yes. Hillary Clinton, just for instance, has spent years cozying up to Nixon's old friend the Rev. Billy Graham. And yet what are the chances that she seconds Graham's feeling, caught on Nixon's tapes, that Jews are pornographers with a ''stranglehold'' on the American media? Just a ballpark guesstimate: ...

If there’s a lesson to be learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s fast-motion disintegration, it’s gotta be: Don’t fight it. After her initial slip-up—Ferraro said that Obama was a successful candidate only because he’s black—she could have apologized and walked away. As a member of the fundraising committee, she didn’t rank particularly high on ...

The Republicans have a problem: John McCain. Oh, he's a military hero and all, and despite a wife who seems to lurk over him—well, everywhere (Spitzer could have used such a mate)—he is our courageous, if economically unschooled, nominee. I say ''our'' since I am still counting myself a Republican so long as I'm not the last guy in the party ...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I grew up admiring Geraldine Ferraro. I was 14 when she ran for vice president, and I viewed her as a trailblazer. When I saw her initial comments about Obama last week (''If Obama was a white man ... if he was a woman [of any color], he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who ...

During a day’s worth of high-octane umbrage-taking over Geraldine Ferraro’s comments about Barack Obama, Ferraro herself was unrepentant.“If it makes David [Axelrod] happy I would get off the finance committee. But I’m telling David that I will raise money for Hillary. And if Barack Obama is the candidate, he shouldn’t really antagonize people ...

The 2008 presidential election has perfected a new category of gaffe: the otherwise sane, rational person saying something utterly irresponsible. Bill Sheehan started it with his coy drug reference, followed by Bill Clinton's comparison of Obama to Jesse Jackson, followed most recently by Samantha Power’s ''monster'' comment. Welcome to the club, ...